SHORT COMMUNICATION New Host Records and Description of the Egg of

Anacanthorus penilabiatus is referred parasitizing the type-host Piaractus mesopotamicus (Serrasalmidae) and two new hosts, Colossoma macropomum and C. brachypomum (Characidae) from fish ponds of “Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra as Secas”, Pentecoste, State of Ceará, Brazil. Table of measurements and the first description of the egg are presented. Key words: Monogenea- Dactylogyridae- Anacanthorus penilabiatus- fish parasite The majority of monogenean species in Brazil was described from the Amazonian region. The genus Anacanthorus is represented by 63 species, all of them from the Amazonas River Basin, with the exception of Anacanthorus penilabiatus Boeger, Husak & Martins, 1995, which was de-scribed from the gills of Piaractus mesopotamicu